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Cotton Bale on Platform

Date: 1919
Description: A bundled cotton bale rests on a wooden platform at a loading dock or train depot. A train car on a railroad track is alongside the right of the platform.
Photograph

Destruction of Hood's Ordinance (Ordnance) Train

Date: 1864
Description: General Hood ordered a train full of gunpowder set on fire so that the Union Army couldn't use it, resulting in a series of explosions
Plate 44
Photograph

The Allatoona Pass Looking North, GA

Date: 1866
Description: View from railroad tracks through the Allatoona Pass. One of the buildings on the left says "Grocery," and piles of lumber are stacked along the sides of t...
Photograph

Defences of the Etawah Bridge

Date: 1866
Description: View along earthworks overlooking the Etawah River and a railroad bridge. A tree stripped of branches and bark is on the left.
Plate 23
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1910
Description: Commercial buildings stand on either side of a set of railroad tracks. Automobiles line each street and the Toombs County Courthouse, featuring a colonnad...
Map or Atlas

Map Illustrating the Siege of Atlanta, Ga. By U.S. Forces

Date: 1864
Description: This map of the Atlanta area shows entrenchments, relief by hachures, vegetation, drainage, roads, railroads, towns, and the names of a few residents in th...
Map or Atlas

Military Map Showing the Marches of the United States Forces Under Maj. Genl. W.T. Sherman During the Years 1863, 1864, 1865

Date: 1865
Description: Detailed map of the southeastern United States showing fortifications, "movements of Genl. J.H. Wilson's Cavalry Corps," "pursuit of Hood" and the lines of...
Map or Atlas

Part of Map Illustrating the March of the Army Under Command of Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman from Atlanta Ga. to Savannah, Ga. November 15th to Dec. 21st, 1864

Date: 1865
Description: This pen and ink map sketches the route taken by General Sherman's troops from Atlanta, Georgia, to Savannah, Georgia. Railroads, rivers, and towns are lab...
Map or Atlas

Map Illustrating the Siege of Atlanta, Georgia, by the United States Forces Under Command of Maj. Genl. W.T. Sherman

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Description: This detailed map shows fortifications, headquarters, location and dates of battles, street outline of Atlanta, roads, railroads, vegetation, drainage, rel...

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